Lacing hook or stud



(N0 Model.)

B. KEMPSHALL.

LAGING HOOK OR STUD.

No. 552,841. Patented Jan. '7, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fricn.

ELEAZER KEMPSIIALL, OF NEVTON, ASSIGNOR TO THEOPITILUS KING, 'JRUSTEE, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

LACING HOOK OR STUD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,841, dated January 7, 1896.

Application filed September 11, 1895 Serial No. 562,147. (No model) To (0Z5 whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELEAZER KEMPSHALL, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massach usetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacing Hooks or Studs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in lacing-hooks; and it consists in the novel features of construction and relative arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described in the specification, clearly illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this ap plication, in which like characters are used to indicate like parts wherever they occur.

Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a lacing-hook embodying my invention without the weai resisting cover. Fig. 2 represents a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a sectional view of a completed hook, the cover being shown on the head of the hook. Fig. 5 represents a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

In the drawings, a represents the shank portion. of a lacing hook or stud, h the neck formed thereon, and c the head formed on the neck and supported thereby over the shank portion. The said shank portion may be constructed in any suitable manner to enable it to be secured to a boot or shoe upper, or other article, and is here shown as an eyelet adapted to be upset or spread at one end, after the usual manner of attaching eyelets. The shank may, however, be of any other suitable construction and may be composed of prongs instead of being tubular.

The head 0 constitutes the only feature of novelty so far as the metal body of the device is concerned. Said head is provided with a depressed central portion 2, and a raised margin 3 surrounding said depressed central portion. This form is best secured by making the head substantially concavo-convex in form, the bottom being convex. The bottom surface of the head 0 is inclined upwardly from the depressed central portion to'the margin, and forms a beveled flange overhanging a space entirely surrounding the said depressed central portion, so that when the head is placed upon a supporting bed or die, the depressed central portion will bear on said bed and a recess will be formed around said central portion for the reception of aportion of the material of the cover c. The margin of the head is provided with a plurality of notches n, which interrupt the continuity of the margin and permit the cover to be made thicker at intervals, the prongs and the material of the cover that enter said notches giving the head an increased thickness at that point. The result is that there is no liability of the crown or upper portion of the head breaking away from the head or lower portion thereof. Said cover is made by molding a mass of plastic pyroxyline composition upon the head 0 when the latter is supported, as above indicated, by the supporting bed or die. The flat bottom surface 6 of the cover is form ed by the supporting-die, and the domeshaped top surface 7 is formed by a co-operating die which descends on the material and crowds it into the concave recess in the upper side of the head and into the recess surrounding the depressed central portion of the head and between the said notches. The material of the cover is thus disposed to good advantage and forms a strong and durable cover, which is securely interlocked with the head a and effectually conceals the same.

Having thus explained the nature of in y invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A lacing hook or stud, comprising a suit-- able attaching device, a neck extending therefrom, a head having a raised margin provided with notches, and a depressed central portion surrounded by said notched margin, a molded cover formed on said head, and having a substantially flat bottom which is flush with the depressed central portion of the head, and a dome-shaped top, portions of said cover filling the notches in the head, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A lacing hook or stud, comprising in its construction an attaching device, a neck exname to this speeificatien, in the presence of ten 'ling therefrom, a dish-shaped head formed two subscribing witnesses, this 4th day of Sepon said neck, the margin of said head being member, A. D. 1895.

turned up at an angle to the plane of said ELEAZER KEMPSHALL. 5 head, and formed with spurs, substantially Vitnesses:

as and for the purpose set forth. A. D. HARRISON,

In testimony whereof I have signed my P. ABELL. 

